Equations & Enchantments||ONC2025

Science is law. Magic is chaos. Talia Quinn knows which side she stands on-until the night her fiancé and three other scientists vanish without a trace.

There are no clues, no ransom, and no logical explanation for the disappearance-just an impossible disappearance and a single notebook left behind.

Then Ziva reappears-dangerous, alluring, and claiming magic isn't just real, but woven into Talia's very being. She speaks of a realm between worlds, of forces beyond physics, and of a power Talia has unknowingly carried all along.

Desperate for answers, Talia steps into the Inbetween, where equations and enchantments are two sides of the same force-and wielding one means understanding the other.

The truth isn't dangerous. It's impossible. It shatters everything she thought she knew.

And once she sees the world for what it truly is, there's no unseeing it.

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ONC2025 Prompt 102. What is science, if not magic, governed by laws instead of emotions?